GOLDFIELDS CONSOLIDATED EARLY BATTERY SITE
BURNS STREET SPRING GULLY, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
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GOLDFIELDS CONSOLIDATED EARLY BATTERY SITE - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
1905: Bendigo District: The North Bendigo Co, the next one north, is doing some good prospecting work, as also is the Nell Gwynne Co. Then comes the Goldfields Consolidated Co. which has a payable lode, and expects shortly to erect a battery.
1906 Bendigo District: At the Goldfields Consolidated Co’s mine a large amount of prospecting work has been done
1907: Bendigo District: The Goldfields Consolidated Co., in addition to developmental work has erected a new winding plant. The depth of the shaft is 600 feet. 8,410 tons for 3,265ozs. The proceeds, in addition to paying ordinary working expenses, from the above have been devoted to the erection of a winding plant and battery at a cost amounting to about £7,000.
1909. Bendigo District: The Goldfields Consolidated Co - 12,377/3,238ozs/£1,000.
18 June 1909: Goldfields Consolidated ... The reefs opened up have been operated on fairly extensively and up to the present time the company has milled 29,533 tons/8625ozs gold/average 6dwt per ton ... The property possesses a battery.
1912, May 17: Bendigo Goldfield - Mines on the southern extension ... the Nel Gwynne line has received most attention. The most productive of the mines in the group has been the Victoria Proprietary, New Chum Goldfields, Goldfields Consolidated, Nell Gwynne and North Bendigo.
... The only company at present pioneering the deep ground is the Goldfields Consolidated. This company is sinking its shaft, and at the present depth - about 1285 feet - is in the vicinity of the centre country.
1912: Gold-fields Consolidated - shaft sinking, prospecting shallow levels, and crushing low grade ore.
1913: Nell Gwynne line ... Goldfields Consolidated Co - To enable the Co. to continue to sink the main shaft the Department has advanced a sum of £2,500.
1914: Goldfields Consolidated Co. - several parties of tributers working.
1915, September 7: Bendigo Mining Companies - Dividends, Calls and Scrip Values - The war census, which is now being taken, and the income tax schedules, which will shortly have to be filled in, impose on holders of mining scrip the responsibility of recording dividencd received and the amount paid in calls, together with a statement of the value of scrip held. In order to assist the investing public in the compilation of the statisticswe have compiled the records of the Bendigo mining companies. The following is the list of Bendigo mining companies: [including] Goldfields Consolidated.
1936: Goldfields Consolidated - This shaft was sunk to 1,600 feet and yielded 9,762 oz. of gold from 36,571 tons crushed, while £7,324 was paid in dividends. At 410 feet a crosscut west cut a small formation, and at the 730-feet level a saddle reef was cut.Heritage Inventory Description
GOLDFIELDS CONSOLIDATED EARLY BATTERY SITE - Heritage Inventory Description
Goldfields Consolidated - operated c. 1899 to 1914. Battery erected 1905 Battery site /nLocated on a platform cut into a hill-slope, the battery is represented by a line of concrete footings, in some of which upright timber stumps are still in place; in others, the stumps are absent, only the slots in which they stood remaining. The remains appear to represent two phases of battery construction: (1) six battery boxes of five head of stamps, set in hard concrete footings; (2) two battery boxes of four head of stamps, set in footings of softer concrete. The area to the front or south of the battery boxes has been stripped back to bedrock. On the western side of the platform is a brick engine bed, measuring 27 x 5ft and standing to a height of 6ft. The bricks are handmade and set in a softish concrete mortar. The northern face of the engine bed's brickwork is stepped The engine bed retains its mounting bolts and a section of bitumen survives at the foot. /nWinding engine site /nRunning at a right-angle to, and adjacent to the north end of, the battery's engine bed is an H-shaped winding engine bed. Its overall measurements are 18 x 15 ft and it stands 6ft high. The engine bed's fabric suggests two phases of construction: stonework, later added to or repaired in brick. A filled shaft lies 35m to the south. A depression and brick rubble near the south-west corner of the engine bed suggest the site of a boiler. North of the engine bed is a semi-circular mullock heap with numerous short dumping-lines. The heap stands to a maximum height of 5m and its southern half has been partially quarried. The surviving portion is about 35m wide. In the gully below the mullock heap are the remnants of a substantially quarried tailings dump. The surviving tailings show stratified layers of sand and sludge./nEarly battery site? /n20m east of the winding engine bed is another platform cut into the hillside. Although no structural remains are visible, the platform is associated with a small dump of tailings and a dry dam.
Heritage Inventory Significance: Local
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